01-02-2018, 08:38 AM
[FONT=&]As for that even more fictitious movie about The Post, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, at the time Alan Pakula was directing it, I had a brief meeting with him at his home. He was a very nice man, and that Saturday a publicist had sent me to [/FONT][FONT=&]his home to do an interview but hadn't told him. So he apologized and said he was too busy to talk. I had time for just one question. A friend who was an historian studying the RFK assassination had told me Bob Woodward was CIA I didn't realize at the time that Woodward actually was/is an ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) operative. After serving in Vietnam on a ship handling intelligence, Woodward had the job of giving the official top-secret Naval Intelligence briefing to Alexander Haig every day for a year in the White House (Woodward still denies this, but it's all accurate).
Anyway, I asked Pakula if he had heard the story about Woodward being CIA, and he said he had heard it, "But I can't think about it while making the film, or I'll go crazy."[/FONT]
Anyway, I asked Pakula if he had heard the story about Woodward being CIA, and he said he had heard it, "But I can't think about it while making the film, or I'll go crazy."[/FONT]